A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections, carries...

MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s. As a permissive license, it...

main categories of open-source licenses are permissive and copyleft. Both grant permission to change and distribute software. Typically, they require attribution...

The Apache License is a permissive free software license written by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). It allows users to use the software for any purpose...

BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. This is...

Python Software Foundation License (PSFL) is a BSD-style, permissive software license which is compatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL). Its...

permissive MIT license dethroned the GPLv2 as most popular free-software license to the second place while the permissive Apache license follows already...

The ISC license is a permissive free software license published by the Internet Software Consortium, now called Internet Systems Consortium (ISC). It is...

The zlib license is a permissive free software license which defines the terms under which the zlib software library can be distributed. It is also used...

The Academic Free License (AFL) is a permissive free software license written in 2002 by Lawrence E. Rosen, a former general counsel of the Open Source...

The Python License is a deprecated permissive computer software license created by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). It was used...

Although the term "free software" had already been used loosely in the past and other permissive software like the Berkeley Software Distribution released...

The GNU All-permissive License is a lax, permissive (non-copyleft) free software license, compatible with the GNU General Public License, recommended by...

This comparison only covers software licenses which have a linked Wikipedia article for details and which are approved by at least one of the following...

The WTFPL is a permissive free software license. As a public domain like license, the WTFPL is essentially the same as dedication to the public domain...

License compatibility is a legal framework that allows for pieces of software with different software licenses to be distributed together. The need for...

to use said software, with attribution, in derived commercial products). In the broad sense, any FOSS license is a source-available license. In the narrow...

licenses. Public domain licenses Creative Commons CC0 WTFPL Unlicense Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) Permissive licenses Apache License BSD...

waiver statement and a fall-back all-permissive license, for cases where the waiver is not valid. The Free Software Foundation and the Open Knowledge Foundation...

Beerware is a tongue-in-cheek software license with permissive terms. It provides the end user with the right to use a particular program (or do anything...

certain patents. Copyleft software licenses are considered protective or reciprocal in contrast with permissive free software licenses, and require that information...

GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The license allows developers and companies...

License, and even further distinct from the more widely-used permissive software licenses such as BSD, MIT, and Apache. Historically, the GPL license...

the Apache License is compatible with the copyleft GPLv3, the GPLv3 is not compatible with the permissive Apache license — Apache software can be included...

public-domain software or permissive-licensed software, Stallman's copyleft license tries to enforce the free shareability of software also for the future...

Illinois/NCSA Open Source License, or UIUC license, is a permissive free software license, based on the MIT/X11 license and the 3-clause BSD license. By combining...

proprietary versions. Non-copyleft free software (i.e. software distributed under a permissive free software license or released to the public domain) allows...

others as a middle ground between the permissive software BSD-style licenses and the GNU General Public License. So under the terms of the MPL, it allows...

Business Source License (BUSL) is a trademarked software license which publishes source code but limits the right to use the software to certain classes...

A software license is a legal instrument (usually by way of contract law, with or without printed material) governing the use or redistribution of software...